Basically my 250GB Seagate died a while back, I sent it for RMA, got an 80GB Western Digital, installed XP SP2, used it for a while. Now I got my Seagate back, but since its a refurbished product I decided against putting my OS on it, and to use it as a secondary storage HDD only.
When I connect the Seagate as a secondary drive, once I try to boot to WinXP from my 80GB drive, the system will reboot shortly after pausing at the Windows loading screen. I have tried formatting the 80GB as NTFS, and partitioning the 250GB as 2x120GB NTFS, and doing a clean WinXP install. The first time it boot up it seemed fine. Afterwards, it would again reboot after I see the loading screen for a split second. They are both S-ATA drives, I have updated my BIOS, have the newest nForce4 drivers, and just can't seem to find out why this is happening. I believe my BIOS settings are right (well the boot order is), and no I don't want to raid. Seagate and MSI sites are pretty useless after searching through them. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
This is my setup:
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD X2 3800+
ATI X800XL
OCZ Premier 2x512MB DDR PC3200 (400MhZ) DIMMs (not overclocked nor set with aggressive timings)
Antec SmartPower2.0 450Watt PSU
80GB Western Digital 7200RPM S-ATA drive
250GB Seagate 7200RPM S-ATA drive
When I connect the Seagate as a secondary drive, once I try to boot to WinXP from my 80GB drive, the system will reboot shortly after pausing at the Windows loading screen. I have tried formatting the 80GB as NTFS, and partitioning the 250GB as 2x120GB NTFS, and doing a clean WinXP install. The first time it boot up it seemed fine. Afterwards, it would again reboot after I see the loading screen for a split second. They are both S-ATA drives, I have updated my BIOS, have the newest nForce4 drivers, and just can't seem to find out why this is happening. I believe my BIOS settings are right (well the boot order is), and no I don't want to raid. Seagate and MSI sites are pretty useless after searching through them. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
This is my setup:
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD X2 3800+
ATI X800XL
OCZ Premier 2x512MB DDR PC3200 (400MhZ) DIMMs (not overclocked nor set with aggressive timings)
Antec SmartPower2.0 450Watt PSU
80GB Western Digital 7200RPM S-ATA drive
250GB Seagate 7200RPM S-ATA drive
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